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1 About

The Haskell Hackathon is an international, grassroots collaborative coding festival with a simple focus: build and improve Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.

BelHac will be held on 5-7 November 2010 in "The Therminal" in Ghent, Belgium. It is open to all -- you do not have to be a Haskell guru to attend. All you need is a basic knowledge of Haskell, a willingness to learn, and a project you're excited to help with (or a project of your own to work on).

2 News

3 When

3.1 Program

Friday: short introduction, followed by hacking and sponsored food. There will also be a "Real World Haskell Crash Course" for unexperienced but interested people.

Saturday: Hacking!

Sunday: More hacking, and in the afternoon we will have a couple of (lightning) talks.

If you'd like to work on a specific project, please consider adding it to the projects page if it is not on there already. Otherwise, add yourself to the list of people who will hack on said project.

4 Getting there

4.1 Getting to Ghent

The nearest airport is the Brussels Airport in Zaventem (code: BRU). The train station connected to this airport has an excellent connection with Ghent (Gent in Dutch). The train schedule is pretty regular and should be more or less the same through the entire day after 9:00 AM -- pending accidents, delays, etc. So just replace the 'hour' of the ride with the hour at which you'll arrive at the train station and you're set. For example, for train reaching Ghent prior to 10AM, the schedule looks as follows.

Time of departure

Time of arrival

Change trains at

7:27 (dir. Nijvel)

8:36

Brussel-Noord (dir. Oostende)

7:52 (dir. De Panne)

8:45

8:10 (dir. Gent, stops everywhere!)

9:35

Brussel-Noord (dir. St.-Niklaas); Dendermonde (dir. Brugge)

8:36 (dir. Quevy)

9:36

Brussel-Noord (dir. Oostende)

8:52 (dir. De Panne)

9:45

Basically, unless the train leaving at the airport is an IC or IR type connected to Ghent and beyond, you are best of when changing trains in Brussels (station Brussel-Noord (North)). There you are best off taking the IC train to either Oostende or Knokke/Blankenberge. In both cases, Ghent St.-Pieters is the first stop after Brussel-Zuid (South) or Bruxelles-Midi (in French), i.e., the third stop if you change train at Brussel-Noord.